Emma Beddington's guest appearances

Emma Beddington

Shakespeare and Company: Writers, Books and Paris

Woman's Hour

The Books That Built Me

The Beauty Podcast, with Sali Hughes

Lionel Shriver

Ece Temelkuran

Funmi Fetto

Sarah Churchwell

Jojo Moyes

Sarah Hall

Carol Ann Duffy

Juno Dawson

Jeanette Winterson

Anne Sebba

Rose Gallagher

Eimear McBride

Cerys Matthews

Zadie Smith

Daisy Johnson

OwlTail

Sandy Black

Maggie Murray

Melinda Simmons

Tina Backhouse

Matthew Greenwood

A new exhibition, Photographing Protest: Resistance through a feminist lens,  features striking protest images by women and explores how images of resistance resonate across generations from 1968 to the present day.  Maggie Murray, a prolific photographer of protest, whose images feature throughout the exhibition. As a founding member of Format photo agency, she documented ground-breaking protests of the 1980s and 1990s and tells Emma about her work.  Currently based in Warsaw, Melinda Simmons has been the British Ambassador for the Ukraine since September 2019. She left Kyiv on 19 February 2022 and only finally left Ukraine on 7th March 2022 eleven days after the Russian invasion. She joins Emma to discuss Putin, Ukrainian refugees and the support role she and her team are now playing for Ukrainian citizens from Poland.We talk about the cost-of-living crisis and the ends some women are going to to make ends meet with Matthew Greenwood head of debt at the Centre for Social Justice.Would you wear the same dress for 100 days? Could you do it? Emma Beddington made it to 40 days wearing the same dress as a challenge. We speak to her and Sandy Black, Professor of Fashion and Textile Design and Technology, about the power, sustainability and history of wearing the same item over and over again.Are you struggling to get hold of your HRT? Menopausal women are reporting being forced to turn to the so-called black market as demand for prescriptions in England has doubled in the last five years. We speak to Tina Backhouse the General Manager of Theramex, one of the largest suppliers of HRT to the UK market about what is causing the current problems.Presenter: Emma BarnettProducer: Lisa JenkinsonStudio Manager: Tim HefferPhoto credit: Maggie Murray

A new exhibition, Photographing Protest: Resistance through a feminist lens, features striking protest images by women and explores how images of resistance resonate across generations from 1968 to the present day. Maggie Murray, a prolific photographer of protest, whose images feature throughout the exhibition. As a founding member of Format photo agency, she documented ground-breaking protests of the 1980s and 1990s and tells Emma about her work. Currently based in Warsaw, Melinda Simmons has been the British Ambassador for the Ukraine since September 2019. She left Kyiv on 19 February 2022 and only finally left Ukraine on 7th March 2022 eleven days after the Russian invasion. She joins Emma to discuss Putin, Ukrainian refugees and the support role she and her team are now playing for Ukrainian citizens from Poland. We talk about the cost-of-living crisis and the ends some women are going to to make ends meet with Matthew Greenwood head of debt at the Centre for Social Justice. Would you wear the same dress for 100 days? Could you do it? Emma Beddington made it to 40 days wearing the same dress as a challenge. We speak to her and Sandy Black, Professor of Fashion and Textile Design and Technology, about the power, sustainability and history of wearing the same item over and over again. Are you struggling to get hold of your HRT? Menopausal women are reporting being forced to turn to the so-called black market as demand for prescriptions in England has doubled in the last five years. We speak to Tina Backhouse the General Manager of Theramex, one of the largest suppliers of HRT to the UK market about what is causing the current problems. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Tim Heffer Photo credit: Maggie Murray

Maggie Murray, Melinda Simmons, Emma Beddington and Sandy Black, Tina Backhouse, Matthew Greenwood

Can beauty be a form of empowerment? Writer and author Emma Beddington lost her hair almost overnight at the age of 20. Soon afterwards, she began her own beauty blog and went on to contribute to beauty features for glossies and newspapers alike. Emma shares her story of how she used beauty as a tool for empowerment when life threw her a curveball. Sali and Emma take your questions in the surgery.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can beauty be a form of empowerment? Writer and author Emma Beddington lost her hair almost overnight at the age of 20. Soon afterwards, she began her own beauty blog and went on to contribute to beauty features for glossies and newspapers alike. Emma shares her story of how she used beauty as a tool for empowerment when life threw her a curveball. Sali and Emma take your questions in the surgery.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Make-up as a form of empowerment with Emma Beddington

We’re delighted to celebrate the launch of Emma Beddington’s warm and witty memoir We’ll Always Have Paris, a book for anyone who has ever worn a Breton T­-shirt and wondered, however fleetingly, if they could pass for une vraie Parisienne.

Emma Beddington on We’ll Always Have Paris